BirdInFlight wrote:
I believe someone who mentioned bad "white balance" got it right -- this image's white balance was on the incorrect setting when the picture was taken.
The dress may very well be white with gold trim or rather, the nearest thing to what's called "gold" in plain fabric, which is a kind of light brown.
People who are used to making an internal mental adjustment for seeing a bluish digital image that they know has bad white balance for the lighting situation, will see that the dress "in person" is probably white with gold trim.
People who literally take what's on screen as gospel, are looking at their monitor from an angle that appears to darken the screen, or who have darker screen settings employed, will see almost black trim against a very blue dress. I can see that if I put my head down lower to my screen. But if I don't, I can "understand" the bluish image as conveying what was probably a white and gold dress.
So, I think it's a white and gold dress but the digital image is color-cast because it was photographed with a camera that had the wrong setting for the lighting.
Actually, the true dress really is blue and black:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-wh ... 81639.htmlScroll down a bit to see the original listing for the dress itself, and a neutral photo of it (like you see in online shopping sites).